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Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

0 posted 1999-12-20 12:43 PM

ALREADY DEAD

Elbows on the table, hands to my cheeks,
What's holding up my head?
Willing and able, a voice inside speaks,
Tells me I'm already dead.

Outside stars fade with the coming of dawn-
As I watch Night's beauty subside.
The daily charade of a useless pawn,
There's no where left to hide.

Obligations arise, blinding the eyes,
This, a world so full of expectation.
Buried in the lies, the scurried cries-
Only echo alienation.

Time drives slow, a stake through the heart.
The hours, they stretch out before me.
I search yet know but the scripted part-
Of constants ever to implore me.
The elegant flow of a dying art,
God, there's nothing left here for me.

Is it wrong to hope of painless days?
Alas, all feeling's fled.
Clinched tight, the rope of other's ways-
Ripping my hands, skin worn and red.
I hold, I cope, yet reality says-
I am already dead.

Michael Anderson

It's the little things you take for granted,
That'll mean the most to you when they're gone.

poetFemmeFatale
Member Elite

since 1999-07-25

Posts 2646
Arkansas

1 posted 1999-12-20 01:10 AM

Pardon me - just cleaning up a little mess I made... ***sweep sweep*** (big sighs!)

Er...uh...nice poem there, Michael.... (giggling)

- - - If I can just touch you once, then I feel I have accomplished what I am called to do...- - pFF

[This message has been edited by poetFemmeFatale (edited 12-20-1999).]

starboards
Member

since 1999-10-14

Posts 467
longwood, florida

2 posted 1999-12-20 01:45 AM

I like this one michael...have felt this and feeling this...you expressed it well...althought im sorry you ever felt this way

Michael

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-08-13

Posts 7666
California

3 posted 1999-12-20 11:58 PM

Thanks for the sweep, Femme, hehe. Glad that's all cleared up.

TY Starboards,

this is actually a poem I wrote some time back - just thought I'd dig it out to see what people thought of it.

Michael

DreamEvil
Member Elite

since 1999-06-22

Posts 2396

4 posted 1999-12-21 10:06 PM

I am glad to have company amongst the ranks of walking dead my friend.

Now and forever, my heart hears ~one voice~.
DreamEvil©
-------------------------------------------------------
"Either kill me or take me as I am,
because I'll be damned if I ever change..."

Count Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade
(Marquis de Sade)

Isis
Member Ascendant

since 1999-09-06

Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland

5 posted 1999-12-21 11:50 PM

We've all been there Michael, glad you dug the poem up!!

What the inner voice says will NOT disappoint the hoping soul.
~Isis~
(Daughter of Mystery)

JOY 14
Senior Member

since 1999-09-22

Posts 1419
Wisconsin USA

6 posted 1999-12-23 12:50 PM

Wow! I almost passed this one up. Glad I caught it. It was amazing as always. Very expressive.
I count the times I have felt already dead even though I'm alive.

JOY

For_Never
Member

since 1999-10-27

Posts 125
Cincinnati, oh, United States of America

7 posted 1999-12-24 03:35 PM

Very well done m'Lord. I was moved...
a hard thing for anyone to do to me for sometime now..
Thanks..
EAB

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